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Scripts to verify members and PI of a project space

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
linux, shell
Domain
devops, tooling

Research direction

Start by reviewing the repository structure and the commands in the issue: ls, groups, and getent group. Define scripts that check a project's PI, a user's group access, and the members of a group; the work is done when each requested check can be run and reports the relevant result.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

To find the PI of a project space,
ls -la /data/project | grep group_name

To find if the user has access to (a group/which all groups)
groups blazer_id

To find the members of a group,
getent group group_name

Dominant language
Python
Stars
1
Forks
9
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Getting set up

  • No Dockerfile or Docker Compose file
  • Has a pull request template
  • No contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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